The Ledge - For anyone at the Scranton show...

Wow! What a show last night. I got a few hours of sleep and now I am ready to write my review. I went to the show with a friend of mine and his two little girls. They are ages 5 and 7. This was to be their first concert. We met up a few hours beforehand with some friends I had met at one of Lindsey's shows a few months ago. The girls had no idea what was in store for them for the evening. We had kept it a secret since March. It was really hard for us to keep quiet at dinner. It helped that we had a copy of Carol's book (I'm half way through...will post my favorite parts in another thread) and we were reading some things from it. After dinner we took the girls out to the car and told them they needed to change their clothes. To their surprise I had packed them full on 'Stevie' clothes. They were in the back seat of the car when I handed them their clothes. I heard the oldest one say to the youngest one "I think we're going to a Stevie Nicks concert!" We arrived at the show about an hour before the doors opened which was great because it gave me time to do their make up and hair and put the finishing touches on their outfits. In between they took turns spinning with their sparkling shaws, with many smiling onlookers watching. We walked inside and after getting some t-shirts and some drinks we stood around and chatted. A photographer from Live Nation came and took a few pictures of the girls. Unfortunatly he left so quickly that we didn't get a chance to ask him where we could get a copy of the pictures. (Does anyone have any ideas?? I emailed John Kinney). The girls got smiles everywhere we went. Stevie's fans are soooo nice!!! Unfortuantly all of us could not get seats together so I took the oldest and we went to our seats about 10 minutes before Vanessa started. We got all kinds of comments from our seats. The lady in front of us turned around and was talking to us about their 7 year old daughter and how she is named after Rhiannon and the lady beside us was also talking to Brenna and asking if it was her first concert. I'll tell you again - Stevie has the nicest fans in the world. Brenna and I had pretty good seats - 7th row to the left side of the stage. Brenna had drew Stevie a 'Rhiannon' picture and I had finally written a letter to Stevie. We walked up to one of the security guards before the show and asked him if he was aware of 'The Edge Walk' and he was but said only the first 3 rows were allowed up. I explained I had a little one that wanted to give Stevie a picture and he said I had to ask some head of security or somethiing. So, not knowing who or where this guy was we sat down. Stevie came out early and started out with 'Stand Back'. Brenna stood on the seat and was just in awe. It was so cool to see Stevie, but it was even better watching her face! I have seen Stevie quite a few times in the past and I really wanted Brenna to have a good time. By the time Stevie launched into 'Rhiannon' Brenna was singing along and dancing. The people in front of us tended to sit down so Brenna had a full on view of Stevie. Stevie looked and sounded amazing as always. I can't believe she looks so good at 59!!! She talked a lot about the songs before she sung them. Her inspiration for writing them and what was going on at the time. I think this is the order of the setlist -

Stand Back
Enchanted
If Anyone Falls
Rhiannon
Sorcerer
Dreams
Gold Dust Woman
I Need to Know
Landslide
How Still My Love
Edge of Seventeen
Rock and Roll
Beauty and the Beast

As soon as How Still My Love started I grabbed the picture and letter and gave it to Brenna and told her we were moving soon. She started to get excited, so halfway through the song we walked over people to get to the end of the aisle to the left side of the stage. We stood and waited for the song to end as people stared at us wondering what the heck we were doing. The song ended and we walked up to the security guy that I had talked to earlier. He told me to show him my ticket and he was going to look at it and send me through, but to stay in the middle so that he didn't get in trouble. I thanked him and we were on our way!! We walked almost to the center and there were only a row of people in front of us. (Front rowers...lucky!) The intro to Edge had started and it was just a drum solo. The stage was huge! I am 5'3 and it went up to my nose. It was hard to see if you weren't right up on it without a speaker in front of you or standing back a few feet. At this point I picked Brenna up so she could see and as we were standing there waiting for Waddy to come out with his guitar I felt someone grab my arm and pull me. It was the head security guy that was directly below Stevie's mic. He pulled me up and said to the girls around him "She has a little girl! She needs to be up front!" I couldn't believe it. We were standing directly below Stevie's microphone!!! Brenna was just in awe. She was getting heavy so I put her down for a little until Stevie came out. The opening guitar riff started and out walked Stevie. She looks soooo good up close. I was able to get lots of pictures as well. I just held the camera up over my head and snapped away. The security didn't even care! They were sooo nice. So...the song ends and Stevie starts at stage left. I made sure Brenna had everything in her hand and I picked her up. It was going to be hard to lift her. Security was in front of me so I couldn't get right next to the stage and there were tons of people to my left and right and behind me. Stevie was getting closer and just as she got in front of me the security guy lifted her up and Stevie grabbed her hand and took the picture and letter. She said 'AAWWW!!! Thank You' to Brenna and touched her on her nose. It was so sweet. It happened so fast I couldn't get a picture until she was already to the next person. We got to stand up there for 'Rock and Roll' and 'Beauty and the Beast'. There was a guy next to us that offered to put Brenna on his shoulders so she could try to get a guitar pick from Waddy. She declinded so the security guy tried to get it from him but he had already backed up. As we were leaving some random guy taps on my shoulder and says 'Did you get to give Stevie your picture?" Brenna said 'yes' and he said "I thought that was you guys up there!" I have no idea who he was!! Everyone was so nice to us I couldn't believe it. I actually felt safe with her up there, despite all the people around us, because of the security guy watching out for us. I have never had such a pleasant exerience at a concert before. I am so glad everything worked out and I know Brenna is going to remember this for a long time. I have tons of pictures but I don't know how to post them. It says they are too large, but I'm not sure how to shrink them. If anyone is willing to help, please let me know. I can email them to you or whatever will work. I got a few good shots and I have a picture of the girls all dressed up. If anyone has a picture of Brenna and Stevie please please let me know. I would love to have a copy for her.

Jackie